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...chance to go riding. Called up by the Army, he was examined by a doctor who concluded, "If we sent you overseas you'd shoot a general." Another added, "Yes, and you'd miss him." Barred from combat, Reagan spent the war years making training films at "Fort Roach," the old Hal Roach Studios, just six miles from Hollywood...
...sure, once the Fed starts raising rates, you never know how far it will go. Stephen Roach, global chief economist at Morgan Stanley, says the Fed has been "irresponsible" in not boosting rates already. He is worried that a series of stiff hikes may be needed to make up for lost time. Uncertainty surrounding how far and how fast rates will rise is what has investors running for cover. But few believe the coming rate boosts will stop the recovery. Economists generally expect orderly rate increases that by the end of 2005 will have pushed the benchmark short-term...
...certainly seemed that way. In 1998, when he was just 19, Pacquiao won a world flyweight title. Two years later, he added a world superbantamweight title. But it wasn't until manager Nazario hooked him up with Freddie Roach, a respected boxing trainer in Los Angeles, that Pacquiao began to reach his potential. "I could tell there was something inside him, but he had not yet discovered it because no one was teaching him," Nazario recalls. "That's why I decided to bring him to the States." Roach took Pacquiao's natural aggressiveness and fearlessness and combined them with defense...
...writes that “the inside of the house is reminiscent of a seedy roach motel.” He has obviously never been to our dining hall or Junior Common Room, which are lovely rooms and are at least as good as those of any other house.nOur entryways are quite nice inside. Those first-years who like the community of entryways more than hallways will be happy that they were not sorted into, say, Cabot. Dunster’s other facilities are actually top-of-the-line. Lost in the news of Quincy’s cardio room...
...Lynch ’07 astutely observed, is the very definition of losing the housing lottery. Dunster is nearly as far from civilization as Mather and the Quad, but without the perks (namely pleasant living quarters and whining rights). The inside of the house is reminiscent of a seedy roach motel, and through the barred windows one can only see Mather’s pockmarked carapace...